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This block is from the only surviving series of original blocks representing the great folio woodcut-illustrated scientific books of the mid-sixteenth century. Shown with the block is its image as printed in T.J. Fitzpatrick's copy (exhibit 8) of the…

Named in honor of Robert Vosper, director of the University of Kansas Libraries from 1951 to 1960.

Named in honor of Robert Vosper, director of the University of Kansas Libraries from 1951 to 1960.

A chronicle history of Venice, written in the Venetian vernacular. The portrait in the initial P is of the Venetian doge, Andrea Dandolo, who wrote the Latin "Chronicon Venetum" of which this text is a continuation. The shield at the foot of the page…

This is an unfinished or defective compilation of various chronicles of English history from Severus through Uther Pendragon. The irregularly shaped columns (some empty) appear to represent different sources; the only one so far identified is…

The Order of the Jesuati, of which the compiler of this manuscript was a member, was founded around 1366. Devoted entirely to caring for the sick, the Jesuati became the largest manufacturers of pharmaceuticals in Italy until their suppression by…

In the 1550s, Vespasiano Gonzaga Colonna, duke of Sabbioneta, near Mantua, began to turn the small village of Sabbioneta, which was the site of his summer palace, into a model city. The Sabbioneta Documents collection is a volume of 172 documents…

Written on paper and bound in blind-stamped leather over wooden boards, with one of its metal clasps still attached, this manuscript has been very heavily read through the centuries. Its many illustrations picture various events in the life of…

Printed over 500 years ago, this broadside is a single-sheet advertisement of the "good German books" for sale by the Augsburg printer and publisher Anton Sorg. Printed on a piece of waste paper ruled for handwriting, it is almost certainly a…